Title: Easy Featured Content
Author: nickohrn
Published: <strong>February 11, 2013</strong>
Last modified: May 23, 2014

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# Easy Featured Content

 By [nickohrn](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nickohrn/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/easy-featured-content.1.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-featured-content/#description)
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 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-featured-content/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-featured-content/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/easy-featured-content/)

## Description

Quickly and easily mark any content that has an editing UI in the WordPress administrative
section as featured. This plugin
 also provides a template tag that you can use 
to display certain markup or styles for featured content and a query variable that
allows you to query for featured (or non-featured) content.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * This is the metabox that will appear on all editing screens after plugin activation
 * [[
 * This screenshot shows the links you can click to feature or unfeature any content
   on your site

## Installation

 1. Upload `featured-content` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Indicate featured content through the row actions on the content management screen
    or the meta box in the content editing screen
 4. Use the query variable `is_featured` in your queries or the template tag `featured_content_is_featured_content`
    in your templates

## FAQ

  How do I make a post type featurable?

By default, the plugin only allows posts and pages to be featured. However, if you
have a custom post type, you can easily add featured content support by modifying
the following snippet:

    ```
    function register_featured_content_support() {
        // Adds featured content support to the custom post type 'my-post-type-slug'
        add_post_type_support('my-post-type-slug', 'featured-content');

        // Removes featured content support from pages
        remove_post_type_support('page', 'featured-content');
    }
    add_filter('after_setup_theme', 'register_featured_content_support');
    ```

  Why would I want to use this plugin?

If you have content on your site that you want to feature (maybe on the home page
or in a sidebar) then you can use this plugin
 to enable marking that content as
featured. It works for any post type that provides an editing UI.

  How do I use the query variable?

In your custom queries (`new WP_Query`, `get_posts` or `query_posts`) simply pass
in the query variable `is_featured` as follows:

    ```
    $featured_posts = new WP_Query(array('is_featured' => 'yes', 'post_type' => 'post'));
    ```

If you need to get only non featured content, you would do something like the following:

    ```
    $non_featured_posts = new WP_Query(array('is_featured' => 'no', 'post_type' => 'post'));
    ```

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Easy Featured Content” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ nickohrn ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nickohrn/)

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### Interested in development?

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## Changelog

#### 1.1.0

 * Better security
 * Code cleanup
 * Use `has_post_type_support` and `add_post_type_support`
 * Only posts and pages support featured content by default now

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release of plugin

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.0**
 *  Last updated **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations **40+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.5.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.9.40**
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[Featured Content](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/featured-content/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-featured-content/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ nickohrn ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nickohrn/)

## Support

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